I've kind of liked when they had the wee little Winchesters on the show

see, that was great, and part of that was because it was a one-shot.

Maybe Dean could be investigating a haunting involving an old girlfriend of his (maybe his first from his sporadic highschool days), or he sees the obit for said girlfriend and finds out some hinky supernatural stuff going on, spirits and stuff. And he finds out that not only did she die, but so did her husband and kid, and something is lingering. There's an evil spirit or demon that killed them and has trapped the spirit of the kid in the house. In the process of hunting the spirit/demon, Dean and Sam discover that the kid was Dean's, and Dean is devestated. Dean kicks the spirit/demon's ass and his kid is free to go off to kiddy heaven. And there is angst.

Angst, damnit!

I'm saving the links to the stories because they sound good.

they're good, but also unsatisfying in that there is so much more to be explored.

That is a wonderful plot bunny, Juliebird.

I was trying to figure out a way for the kid to be evil, and Dean sending the kid's spirit to hell, and whether he should know then or find out after that the spirit-kid was his. But that's just too much.

Too much ANGST!

*ahem*

But seriously, how has Dean not left a wake of babies behind him, ripe for some vengeful demon *coughMegcough* to mess with out of spite? That .99% window starts adding up.

You know, they talk a big game about Dean being a giant horndog. Now, not that I can imagine a world where a man that pretty doesn't get one hell of a lot of tail... I wonder how much is talk and how much is walk.

(And by walk, I of course mean hardcore sex.)

I think Dean gets as much as he wants, really. I mean, look at him.

That said, I'm also pretty sure that, absent extreme circumstances, he's been really careful about not leaving little Winchesters around the country. I am damn sure John had that talk with him. Multiple times, just to be sure. Plus there were probably a few scares.

I'm generally of the opinion that Dean gets laid more often than a lot of guys (because, come on, would *you* say no?) but Dean is also a survivalist. He would use a condom, not only to prevent Dean Juniors, but to prevent an inconvenient case of crabs or the clap.

That said, you're right, Juliebird -- condoms aren't 100 percent effective, and they break, or rip almost unnoticeably. In my fanon, there's at least one girl out there who has fond memories of a certain smirk, big green eyes, an illegal mouth, and decided to keep her unexpected baby.

But seriously, how has Dean not left a wake of babies behind him, ripe for some vengeful demon *coughMegcough* to mess with out of spite? That .99% window starts adding up.

I don't know that they would ever explore this, but my thought was that because Dean had been older brother/substitute father (Nightmare) for Sam, he has an exagerated sense of responsibility. I don't want to go into detail, but I can definitely buy into Dean being really, really, really careful.

condoms aren't 100 percent effective, and they break, or rip almost unnoticeably.

Yep, I bet he doesn't rely only on a condom.

Maybe that's the secret of the amulet. :snerk:

maybe his first from his sporadic highschool days

I'm thinking this is a likely scenario.

How old is Dean now? Tweny-eight in the third season? Dean, in his mid teens, if left for days alone with access to college age girls. Think Tim Riggins from FNL. That would have been maybe too early for Dean to be as careful as he needed to be.

Now that I think about it, the way the Riggins brothers lived may be a good model of how Sam was able to go to high school.

That would have been maybe too early for Dean to be as careful as he needed to be.

that's what I was thinking, and why I specifically mentioned that time in his life. Young, "I will live forever!", indestructible, "it'll never happen to me". He grew up fast, had lots of responsibility since he was, what, four? but I think hormones could get in a way of that, and be a totally different kind of responsibility. Different from knowing how to protect baby Sam, use a gun, cook spaghettios and not set the place on fire. That was day in, day out, waking and sleeping. But girls? Whole new ballgame. And maybe John was so obsessed with hunting that he didn't think to have The Conversation with Dean until he realized that his oldest had already started fooling around.

that's what I was thinking, and why I specifically mentioned that time in his life.

Yeah, there might be a 10, 11, 12 year old Dean out there.

but I think hormones could get in a way of that

I agree. I wasn't factoring those wonderful things into the equation at first.